Sharpening the Blade starts out Parallel's Yellow room with a high energy track backed with mellow pads and bright atmospherics colored like the end of summer. The tone starts to turn with Stuck in the Yellow Room. Still atmospheric with broken beats, it begins to become self reflective preparing the listener for My Beautiful Destruction. The distorted noise of Part 1 takes its time to build a path to the heaviest track of the EP. Part 2 uses intricate drum editing with a snarling bassline turning frustration and turmoil into a powerful drum and bass track to fill any club floor or to space out to in headphones.